Album Notes

Tom, Betty and Nathan Druckenmiller are a family band of excellent old-time musicians. They have been recording and performing for ten years all through the Northeast. Harvest Time, their third CD, was recorded in their living roon overlooking the Huckleberry Ridge in eastern Pennsylvania. The recording includes traditional instrumentals and heart songs as well as selections from Governor Jimmie Davis, the Louvin Brothers and Johnny Cash.
Tom has been playing music for over 35 years in a variety of styles. Instruction with clawhammer banjo master Dwight Diller and guitar heroes Norman and Nancy Blake completely turned his playing around as he plowed full speed ahead into traditional music. He now teaches both banjo and guitar and produces a traditional radio program.
Betty started playing fiddle as the Suzuki partner for their son Nathan. She has studied with Dave Bing, Bill Hicks and Bruce Greene and calls the late Wilson Douglas her fiddle mentor. Ginny Hawker and Sara Carter are her personal vocal heroes and she proudly states that Sara's voice is even lower than hers!
Nathan is a 22 year old fiddler who hopes to become a luthier after college. He is the "native speaker" of the trio as he has grown up around the music while Betty and Tom came to it as adults. He started playing Suzuki Violin at age 5 and by 11 was playing fiddle tunes with Betty. Soon he was playing mandolin and the 20 or so guitar chords Tom diagramed for him. Studies with Bill Hicks, Chirps Smith, Steve Kilby and Joe Newberry have allowed him to become expert in fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. His future is certainly bright as a he carries old-time music into the twenty-first century.
Harvest Time is very popular on wold-wide folk radio despite the record company operating from Betty's ironing board in her quilt studio. This is honest old-time living room music made by a true family band just like the old days. Old-Time music is alive and well along the Huckleberry Ridge in eastern Pennsylvania.